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Elizabeth May is Leader of the Green Party of Canada. An environmentalist, writer, activist and lawyer, Elizabeth has been a leader in the environmental movement since she was a teenager, when she was part of a successful campaign to stop aerial insecticide spraying near her home on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

In a later attempt to prevent herbicide spraying, she and her family sacrificed their home and seventy acres of land in a lawsuit won by Scott Paper – but the suit delayed the spraying long enough to prevent the use of 2,4,5-T altogether.